Local Rumours Suggest Bathurst Circuit Scanned for GT
Some new rumours have been hitting the GTPlanet forums, as Polyphony Digital have been reported to be scanning another real-life track – the Mount Panorama Circuit at Bathurst, Australia.
As far back as 2006, the Polyphony team have expressed interest in the historic circuit, with Kazunori remarking in an interview regarding GT:HD that “Bathurst is in our roadmap”. Sure enough, during this year’s Bathurst 12 Hour race in February, information began to surface of a Polyphony Digital presence at the circuit. GTPlanet member Froudeybrand reported that PD had been taking photographs of the circuit and driving round in a camera car, with other reports elsewhere indicating that they had negotiated a licence with the circuit owners and would also be filming the following week.
For the uninitiated, Mount Panorama – commonly referred to as Bathurst – is a legendary Australian racing track used since 1938 for a variety of sports car races, most notably the Bathurst 12 Hours and the Bathurst 1000. The circuit is 3.8 miles long but varies over 570ft in elevation and runs gradients up to 1:6.13 reaching nearly 3,000ft above sea level. There are 23 challenging corners, almost all of which have seen spectacular incidents over the history of the track. With such intense racing it is little wonder that the track ranks as the fourth most wanted in the GTPlanet Feedback section!
Although this is exciting and enticing news, it remains a possibility that Bathurst may not be scheduled for GT5 DLC, like Spa-Francorchamps before it – indeed we may not see it until GT6.
Thanks to Froudeybrand for the tip and information!
GT5 Photomode image courtesy of iMeijer.
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March 10th, 2012 at 1:12 pm - #foefke
Next Year wil be for next gen gaming , don’t forget the lack of RAM that the PS3 has now , i dont give it 3more Years + PD is not gone suport 3 more Years af DLC , it wil be Cool , but I have one doubts , i think
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March 10th, 2012 at 12:11 am - #ENFORCER 98
i honestly dont know why people are talking bathurst for GT6…. the Ps3 was designed to have a 7- 10 year life cycle which takes it to at least 2016 Bathurst will be on GT% before june ends…
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March 10th, 2012 at 2:33 am - #sangdude82
yeah i agree. i don’t want to wait for 4 years to get Bathurst…
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March 10th, 2012 at 3:18 am - #Nismo34
http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=6799502#post6799502 This is probably why people are saying its for GT6…
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March 10th, 2012 at 7:57 am - #Foxiol
Go to there /forum/showthread.php?t=240165. This sounds as a confirmation to me. It will appear in GT6. But we don´t know if GT6 is going to be in the PS3 or 4.
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March 9th, 2012 at 7:26 pm - #Drifted
Track will appear in GT6. Oh my.. Can’t wait. >:)
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March 9th, 2012 at 8:17 am - #lox429
An awesome and demanding track. Bring it on.
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March 9th, 2012 at 6:55 am - #Youngun
Bathurst would be good (teamed with Vauxhall VXR8 Bathurst Edition), Silverstone with Jaguar XKR-S, Noble M600, Aeriel Atom Supercharged, Astom Martin DBS, Bentley Continental GT, New Maclarens (Project 12 & 13), Next 5 Lotus cars (Elan, Elise, Elite, Europa, Espirit), Radical SR7 and Morgan Area Max. A British Pack, Maybe even Donington Park too :)
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March 8th, 2012 at 7:46 pm - #topgearzakami
Don’t forget the kangaroos
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March 8th, 2012 at 6:26 pm - #DOKNYCE
H&^$%$LL YEAH..
im an old school TOCA 3 racer..
and bathurst was my favorite… its also on ” GRID “( DLC )still hopin for… MOTORCYCLES… though..
CMON TOURIST TROPHY 2.. 8′)
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March 8th, 2012 at 6:15 pm - #sangdude82
Christian Horner said that the RB7 is tucked away at their headquarter and gathering dust.
So, why don’t Red Bull Racing & Bernie Ecclestone just give it away to PD so they can put it into GT5?
I mean both RBR & Bernie will make even more money if they do so…-
March 8th, 2012 at 6:20 pm - #sangdude82
oops, I forgot to say that it was for starwars 22 :)
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March 8th, 2012 at 1:35 pm - #xzeroracer
hmm cool.
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March 8th, 2012 at 4:22 am - #binkie75
Still hoping for Midfield Raceway to come back
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March 8th, 2012 at 3:38 am - #3thanROFL
Sandown please :D
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March 7th, 2012 at 10:55 pm - #bass264
I wonder if they will make GT6 epic.
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March 7th, 2012 at 10:56 pm - #starwars22
Most likely
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March 7th, 2012 at 10:58 pm - #tpark103
Yep
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March 7th, 2012 at 11:43 pm - #TokoTurismo
I bet they will.
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March 8th, 2012 at 5:12 pm - #Youngun
Want everything Prem (or just not standard prem classification) less cars more variety (so instead of year, mark/gen ie mx-5 mark i, mark ii, mark iii which is latest, not 30 of the same car. We dont need every trim level, just basic, sport etc) use that empty memory of the useless cars for more tracks!!
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March 8th, 2012 at 6:13 pm - #foefke
+ 1000…… and 1h 2h sprint races , beter AI , full damage ( Engine and looks )
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March 8th, 2012 at 6:17 pm - #foefke
It will all be in GT6 , in 2,3 years
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March 8th, 2012 at 6:19 pm - #foefke
and the next gen PS4
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March 8th, 2012 at 11:45 pm - #Quakebass
No. They’ll make it entirely bland and it’ll be the worst game ever made.
Of course GT6 will be epic! XD
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March 7th, 2012 at 9:58 pm - #Dan
I think polyphony should take interlagos in Brazil it is a great circuit
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March 7th, 2012 at 9:16 pm - #ShinerBock69
It would be cool if they did this to the F1 track in Austin, it is a really nice track, you’ll should look it up!!!!!!
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March 7th, 2012 at 10:29 pm - #starwars22
I just want f1 cars, like the red bull RB7 and the Mclarean MP4-26… They have the Red Bull X2010/2011, so it should be pretty easy to get the RB7. And now that Porsches contract ended I hope to see real Porsches like 911 turbo, 918 spyder, Carrera GT and so on as well as the zonda cinque, Huayra, and zonda F
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March 8th, 2012 at 5:26 pm - #Youngun
F1 cars are only for codemasters, licensed by bernie ecclestone, would be nice but never happen unless PD paid him big £££. F1 track are ok but cars, nuh uh. Or maybe just champions cars, Brawn GP car, RB7, already have the ferrari’s, Mclaren mp4-23, Renault R26 and maybe some historic ones too (Ayrton Senna’s last car would be a good memory R.I.P)
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March 7th, 2012 at 5:57 pm - #GTPM118
It would be really cool PD have some more offices in other countries…
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March 7th, 2012 at 5:50 pm - #Tulok
Why don’t i get the dlc that people who buy gt5 now get for free, when I bought it on release date? I don’t care if they come out with a new track if I don’t get it, I’d spend another $50 buying all the DLC’s to catch up it’s not worth the money!
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March 7th, 2012 at 6:48 pm - #Peasantslayer
Yes but the game with dlc is worth more than what the original version of GT5 would cost now so new GT5 players aren’t really gaining anything.
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March 7th, 2012 at 1:25 pm - #uneaq27
FOXIOL/BLASOS, I couldn’t agree more with you guys. They need to REALLY START LISTENING to their consumers and make sense w/DLC’s. I… WE DO NOT WANT TO PAY for silly DLCs. A Beetle which we can barely use its full potential, the Aston is just sitting in our garage looking gorgeous with its elephant weight; why dont they instead give us the Aston from FIA GT Champ along with its Competitors;The Lambo GT? We already have the Skyline n the Ford GT. While we’re at it, any MODENA will be appreciated. RACE MODs also. Hell, the BMW M1 instead of the MINI, with its RACE MOD which also competes. Enough of the K-cars and concepts and cars we wont use. Why dont they give us a list so we could vote for what/which car we want in the next DLC??? That would make total sense. I’ll give you a list, lets start with this; WTCC, BTCC, DTM, FIA GT CHAMP., Australian V8 Supercars, BMW M1, 1989 BMW M3 with its wide fenders, the AMG Brands like the amg sl65 black series, ring a bell? SPOON Honda Civic TypeR ’08, MUGEN RR Honda Civic Type R ’08, 1983 Mazda RX-7, 12A and12B, 1979 Mazda RX-2, DATSUN 510, NISSAN PRIMERA Touring Car, a few NISSAN SE-R, R35 AMUSE Skyline, the FORD FOCUS w/300bhp built by the Australians i think, i mean i could go on and on but with this, i just cant see how they did not make it since few of them were already in GT2! Need a Consultant?? PLZ feel free.
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March 7th, 2012 at 2:43 pm - #foefke
Somthing to copiet with the Shulze ( sorry ,24H Nissan GT-R from Kaz. ) and the Audi LMS
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March 7th, 2012 at 7:44 pm - #Quakebass
@uneaq27:
Put that idea in the feedback section! “A DLC Petition by PD” or something; I’d give up one (or three) of my votes for that. It would make PD’s lives much easier; choose one car from he current feedback section, and then maybe five from this petition of possible cars for DLC. The cars in the petition would ONLY be cars that PD had licenses and legal headway to make and were simple enough to design and program, and they could put this petition in GT5, GTPlanet, or even Facebook for more petitioners. Seriously, this is one of the best ideas I’ve seen in a long time. If you put this in the feedback section I WILL vote for it, I promise.
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March 7th, 2012 at 7:51 pm - #carfanatic45
I know thats what i’ve been trying to say this entier time. I mean WHO in the world will drive a standard Prius or any other simple everyday car? It is only usefull for a race or two so why bother put them in the game. PD should only put a couple of them in there. Then the data that uses the boring cars can be replaced with race mod cars, standard to premium cars, or new cars.You could also add tracks as well. I mean considering the amount of standard cars there are you could really do something with all that useless space in our game. I mean look at Shift 2 has little to no standard cars. only about 15% of the cars in the game are extremely low powered. The other 85% is supercars and race cars. You get my point??
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March 7th, 2012 at 9:01 pm - #Foxiol
(thank you uneaq27) Agreed. BUT people when you are making a huge list for a game series as Gran Turismo is not only that you have to think in the way we are now, because we are the ones who has the game already and now after playing a lot of time we feel the need to have even more content and features on it. Ok, we felt that at the start the game was not finished at all but we still played with it.
Now back to the point on the car selection, when they are thinking in some cars they try to mix normal street cars,legends, historic and race cars BUT remember when they are doing that they need to have LICENCES for the brands and the cars that they are going to introduce in the game. They had to make an ‘easy’ and fast decision at the time that Sony asked them for release the game when clearly Kaz said that it was not finished at all. That´s why we didn´t have all cars premium from the start using that logic.
The development time was long because of the creation of the new engine for the PS3 that it is not an easy work and takes years of development even when you have it almost “done” (because you keep upgrading it and fixing issues, bugs, etc and all this have to be tested too so it takes time)
Again the game wasn´t ready at that time but when you are producing a new one from here to 2 or 3 years it must be hard to put new content on it and then try to call the attention for the upcoming game at release. So they need to balance it now. This couldn´t be a problem is they released all DLC´s in the first year of release but the game also has bugs and glitches and problems and they now are trying to mix upgrades with content to please us at the same time so this is a not an easy job.
Now PD is trying hard to enter in the occidental way of thinking about cars and giving cars that we all want but also trying to not loose what GT series is all about (it is about drive the cars that you usually do or dream). That´s because they still want to keep that huge list of cars (of course more from Japan because it is a Japanese game in a Japanese company).
It could be a short list, but what if they released GT5 with only those 200 Premium cars and not the standards…the game for sure will be terrible and feels short and PD games are far as short when it comes to content in general.
NFS Shift yes it works with a short list of cars but it is a fast racing experience and you level up fast and gets boring fast. You finish it and then you feel empty.It is different and not talking about physics…
The thing is that we need cars, we need real engine sounds, livery editor, a little bit more customization,an online internal market (ingame of course) for paints, wheels and parts and all with the best graphics in the same package and good performance.
The cars list is going to be better in the upcoming tittle but as far as i can see now we are going to get mid/happy DLC content (a couple more DLC´s) and at this time we can ask for more.
We are more than 8 million people around the globe with different car tastes and to please the masses with some cars is impossible. Having 1000 cars as this game has is the right choice.The list again could be better and sure it will in a future GT game but not now. -
March 8th, 2012 at 2:25 am - #uneaq27
Well Foxiol, I really enjoy reading your posts. Very str8 to the point and yes i’ll repost it in the feedback section. Now it sounds like you work for them!! :D Anyway, i’ll start off by saying i DO NOT think theres a bigger fan of this game than myself. Thats all I play n care about even if the world was fallen apart. That been said, i’ll tell you what my problem is, and everybody will agree, what was wrong with gt2 tuning garage? remember we could buy a car from the dealer and race mod it? We’d even get in 2 diff colors!! We even had MID-FIELD RACEWAY!!In gt3, we had the wheels madness which got even better in gt4. We could put any wheels on any cars. That was fantastic, brilliant, genius… And the clever thing they did in gt5 was to allow us to paint them, thats was it. With hideous selection of wheels.How hard is it to copy paste them??? :D THATS 1. 2, that Mercedes Benz on 3 wheels from 1954 i think is FINALLY gone with the one from Daimler I believe, couldnt be happier. Why do we have the citroen that outputs no more than 100hp after its been tuned(just saying), that tiny subaru and so on. All that is a waste. We coulda got much much and much more better stuff than that. A Beetle upgraded to premium, seriously??? Let me repeat that one, a Beetle, seriously??? Yes it was popular and…. what? Exactly, nothing else but slow. Back in the days, those slow-bugs would cause traffic because they would overheat and would caught on fire!!! So… why did it make it to Premium??? Why not something like the old GT R/510? Or A Race Mod Ferrari??? I mean Ive always collected cars in all the GT games and in this 1 Im almost at 1500cars. About alot of them are useless, wont ever drive them, few of them are for their looks, some are collectors item, many are must have and the rest is for business; RACING. Now all that effort put in those useless piece of machinery shoulda gone towards better cars/tracks. How hard can this be? I trully dont think we need SUVs, really!! All im saying is BLEND THE GOODIES FROM THE PAST TOGETHER with some add-ons and we should be fine.
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March 8th, 2012 at 4:14 pm - #jont
what a fab list mate, we can dream i guess
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March 8th, 2012 at 6:10 pm - #Youngun
Hard to Explain Really, FIA GT1/GT3 works like F1, WRC, WTCC, Nascar and manufacturers etc. All needing licences to have the cars in the game, GT1/3 is already in shift II with every car and F1 would be impossible at that price plus having there own game which would make it illogical to go to a third party, same with WRC now with the re-imaging on the WRC games (but including JWRC, SWRC and S2000 class) so it would be harder to get Current rally cars in GT6 : / but there is a way of getting round it, most manufacturers sell race ready cars and if PD own the manufacturers licences then they could, in theory, put un sponsored and un-registered race cars in the game. Like the new 458 Challenge from ferreri which is a stripped track monster with full slicks, roll cage, cut off switchs, and more power, others like DBRS9, Z06.R, Murcielago R-SV, ford GT,Vantage N-24, Gallardo LP600, SLS AMG, GT-R Nismo, MP4-12CR, BMW Z4,
(classics like…) S7.R, Mosler MT900R, Z3-M, F360 GT, F430 GT, Areo 8…. some are in the game but need more true race cars and a livery creator for Teams and personalisation. And dont get me started on LMS cars…. No game has most of these and we have a few from each year but few Prems, and R18 and R15 as we have R10 and 8. All Wishs, time will tell……… -
March 8th, 2012 at 6:19 pm - #Youngun
Few more things, If we eventually got Porsche, it would be great as there road cars are top notch but they make cars for most racing series 911 RSR etc and the Signatech Nissan LMP car, why isnt this on here, Lucas’ car FFS.
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March 8th, 2012 at 9:54 pm - #SaMbO_OCAU
holy wall of text BATMAN! maybe write a letter to PD…
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March 9th, 2012 at 12:17 am - #Quakebass
@uneaq27:
See, thats just it; PD was planning on having NO standard model cars in the game, and probably a wider range of cars in the list if they had gotten the time they needed… Really, there would’ve be much more full-fledged content and options. And about that Beetle; it isn’t a Premium upscale of the original; the DLC Beetle was a ’66, the one already in the game was a ’49. The Beetle was a VERY famous and VERY popular car; it was on of, if not the very first tuner car; back in the day, people would add spoilers, make the paint nice and shiny, lower them, mod the engine, and all sorts of other mods. I think PD made the right decision in adding it. I agree, a livery editor and/or race mod system; I don’t care how basic it is, should be added. It would be GREAT for the car trading industry and all the tuners out there. Also, I think PD should slowly add in and update the standard cars and tracks – just slowly make the poorest looking cars an tracks higher resolution, eventually add day/night cycles and weather systems, and add in new aero kits for standards. I wouldn’t mind if they did it 10 cars and 1 track per update and only about 10% better resolution; progress is progress. They could possibly make the minor updates more frequent, and now, not so minor.
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March 9th, 2012 at 7:15 am - #foefke
don’t forget the lack of RAM that the PS3 has now
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March 14th, 2012 at 11:56 pm - #uneaq27
QUAKEBASS, the idea is been posted in the feedback Dept., SPREAD IT!! Click on NEW IDEAS. Waiting on your VOTES.
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March 7th, 2012 at 12:29 pm - #Lavaman
Bring on Bathurst!
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March 7th, 2012 at 10:21 am - #roamer2629
I used to play Bathurst in TOCA 2 (Cars had great feeling but the IA was VERY annoying).
Elevation changes, fast as well as slow turns, fun track to drive overall
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March 7th, 2012 at 4:54 pm - #SolidS2k
Well we need the cars too ya know :P only got the Ford Falcon ATM I think.
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